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Florida Supreme Court Will Hear
Arguments Under Intense Scrutiny

By

Jess Bravin and

Richard B. SchmittStaff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 6, 2000 12:28 a.m. ET

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's governor and legislature share quarters in a 22-story skyscraper here, but the state Supreme Court sits apart from its sister branches of government and in their shadow, holding forth in a diminutive Greek Revival-style building.